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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="cid:ii_jgvcb8nq1_163376402833367e" width="469" height="256"><br>​ "BRED Bank encourages its customers and corporate clients to aspire, to set goals and to achieve – all of which are aims of the Vanuatu Paralympic Committee (VPC), so we are very glad to be able to support parathletes from Santo to attend a pre-competition training camp than to compete in the Melanesian Games to be held in Vila next week with this donation of 450,000 vatu,” commented Cassie Phelan, BRED Bank Marketing Manager as she handed over the cheque to Friana Kwevira, Vanuatu’s Commonwealth Games Bronze medallist.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">As Friana entered the bank, she was surrounded by customers and bank officers all wanting to look at and feel the medal.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">

</p><div class="gmail-asset-content gmail-subscriber-premium" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">“Please, take the medal and pass it around,” said Friana who still finds being the centre of attention a strange experience. “It’s not really my medal – it’s yours, everyone in Vanuatu. I won it for you all.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">Friana Kwevira was identified as a potential parathlete at a VPC Talent Identification Day in Luganville in April last year. Accommodation, airfares, training costs, food, bus-fares and uniforms will be able to be provided through BRED Bank’s generous donation to the other four Santo athletes travelling Port Vila this weekend. They will be joined by 6 other parathletes from Vila to compete in running, javelin and shotput events integrated with the Melanesian Athletics Championship Program.</p><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">The recent Commonwealth Games saw the integrated approach work very well with parathletic events interspersed with ale bodied competition. With over 200 athletes from 18 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, PNG, FSM, New Caledonia and Samoa, the competition promise to be entertaining and diverse.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">“I just want to thank BRED Bank for this funding,” commented Friana. “Living with a disability in Vanuatu is very difficult in terms of education, training, paid employment and of course sporting opportunities. We are often referred to as ‘the forgotten people.’ Having this opportunity to compete in big public competitions like the Pacific Mini Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Melanesian Championships allows the general public see our abilities – not our disabilities. It’s all about possibilities – not impossibilities.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">“Good banking is very similar. BRED Bank prides itself on seeing potential and then supporting it,” concluded James Hudson, General Manager of BRED Bank. “That’s what makes this support for our Vanuatu parathletes such a good match.”</p><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_bottom" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_bottom_content" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div></div><div class="gmail-asset-tagline gmail-text-muted" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(119,119,119);padding-top:20px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit">Raymond Nasse</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit">Sports Editor</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="mailto:raymond@dailypost.vu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">raymond@dailypost.vu</a></p></div>



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